PUBLICATIONS 

• "Developmental peculiarities in placenta of ovine uniparental conceptuses" Arena R, Zacchini F, Toschi P, Palazzese L, Czernik M, Ptak GE. PLoS One. 2017 Nov 30;12(11):e0188278. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188278. 

          http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0188278 

• "Embryo Biopsy and development: the known and unknown" Zacchini F, Arena R, Abramik A, Ptak GE. Reproduction. 2017 Aug 29. pii: REP-17-0431. doi: 10.1530/REP-17-0431.

            http://www.reproduction-online.org/content/early/2017/08/29/REP-17-0431.long

• "DNA methylation signatures in cord blood of ICSI children" El Hajj N, Haertle L, Dittrich M, Denk S, Lehnen H, Hahn T, Schorsch, Haaf T. Human Reproduction 32(8):1761-1769   doi.org/10.1093/humrep/dex209

            https://academic.oup.com/humrep/article-lookup/doi/10.1093/humrep/dex209

• "Cobalamin supplementation during in vitro maturation improves developmental competence of sheep oocytes" Zacchini F, Toschi P, Ptak GE (2017) Theriogenology 93, 55-61 doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.theriogenology.2017.01.035

          http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0093691X17300535

• "Deregulated expression of mitochondrial proteins Mfn2 and Bcnl3L in placentae from sheep somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT) conceptuses" Czernik M, Toschi P, Zacchini F, Iuso D, Ptak GE (2017) PLoS One 11;12(1):e0169579. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0169579.

          http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0169579

• "Remodeling somatic nuclei via exogenous expression of protamine 1 to create spermatid-like structures for somatic nuclear transfer" Czernik M, Iuso D, Toschi P, Khochbin S, Loi P (2016) Nature Protocols 11, 2170–2188, doi:10.1038/nprot.2016.130 

          http://www.nature.com/nprot/journal/v11/n11/full/nprot.2016.130.html

• “Paternal age effects on sperm FOXK1 and KCNA7 methylation and transmission into the next generation” Atsem S, Reichenbach J, Potabatulla R, Dittrich M, Nava C, Depienne C, Boehm L, Rost S, Hahn T, Schorsch M, Haaf T, El Hajj N (2016) Human Molecular Genetics, doi 10.1093/hmg/ddw328

           https://academic.oup.com/hmg/article/25/22/4996/2525925/Paternal-age-effects-on-sperm-FOXK1-and-KCNA7

• "Evidence of Placental Autophagy during Early Pregnancy after Transfer of In Vitro Produced (IVP) Sheep Embryos" Toschi P, Czernik M, Zacchini F, Fidanza A, Loi P, Ptak GE. (2016). PLos One 11(6): e0157594. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0157594

          http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0157594

CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS

• „64 Impaired Post-Implantation Development Following Blastomere Biopsy is Associated with Placental Hypomethylation”  Zacchini F, Ogluszka M, Arena R, Ptak GE.  44th Annual Conference of the Internation Embryo Technology Society, Bangkok, Thailand, 13-16 January 2018.      published in  Reproduction, Fertility and Development,  doi.org/10.1071/RDv30n1Ab64 

          ​conference website http://www.iets.org/2018/

• “Blastomere Biopsy as factor of risk for the onset of metabolic disorders in adult mice” Zacchini F, Gurgul A, Semik E, Pawlina K, Szmatoła T, Bugno-Poniewierska M, Ptak GE ,World Conference Reproductive Biology 2017, 27-29 September 2017, Okinawa, Japan

           conference weebsite http://www.wcrb2017.jp/

• "Parent's choice - present trands in human reproduction". GE Ptak. VIII Zjazd Towarzystwa Biologii Rozrodu, 7-9 September 2017, Olsztyn - Poland 

           ​conference website http://www.tbr.pan.olsztyn.pl/program-zjazdu

• "Blastomere Biopsy as factor of risk for impaired fetal development in mouse model" Zacchini F, Arena R, Abramik A, Ptak GE, VIII Zjazd Towarzystwa Biologii Rozrodu, 7-9 September 2017, Olsztyn - Poland

            ​conference website http://www.tbr.pan.olsztyn.pl/program-zjazdu

•  “Defective placentation in uniparental sheep models”. Arena R, Zacchini F, Ptak GE. Epiconcept - Workshop 2016 Cross-species Epigenetics, Gametogenesis and Embryogenesis, Velingraad, Bulgaria 18-19 May 2016  

            workshop website   http://epiconcept.group.shef.ac.uk/workshop_2016.html

•  “Impaired placental development in ovine uniparental conceptuses”. Arena R, Zacchini F, Toschi P, Palazzese L, Czernik M, Loi P, Ptak GE International Congress of Animal Reproduction, Tours, France, 26-30 June 2016

            conference website  http://www.icar2016.org/events.php?IDManif=880&IDModule=71&IDRub=1583